Zainteresowania naukowe

Obszary badań naukowych: racjonalność myślenia i działania, procesy wartościowania, psychologia środowiskowa, psychologia związków człowieka z miejscem zamieszkania, teorie miejsca, zachowania ludzi w środowisku miejskim, mapy poznawcze otoczenia, pamięć zbiorowa, aktywność i bierność społeczna, kapitał społeczny i kulturowy.

Wybrane publikacje

• Lewicka, M., Urbańska, M., Iwańczak, B. (2026). Us versus Them. Symmetries and Asymmetries in Mutual Perception of Conflicted Cities. Journal of Environmental Psychology , 110, 102953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.102953
• Lewicka, M., Lubiński, A., Strzałkowski, M., Iwańczak, B. (2026). What makes a meaningful place? Evaluating Christopher Alexander's framework of natural order against essentialist and anti-essentialist qualities of urban spaces. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 110, 102952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.102952
• Lewicka, M. , Prusik, M. (2023). Bittersweet versus bitter or sweet: The psychological implications of restorative and reflective nostalgia. PsiArxiv, https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/89fc7
• Strzałkowski, M., Lewicka, M. (2024). Would you rather live in the gray or pink building? Acceptance of colored façades of apartment blocks among architects and laymen and their relationship to cultural capital. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 95, 102279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102279
• Lasiewicz-Sych, A., & Lewicka, M. (2024). The engagement of Polish residents with their home space in single-family houses and flats in multi-family blocks of flats. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-024-10112-x
• Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Lewicka, M. (2023). Attached to Place, Threatened by Newcomers? The Threat to a Place's Cultural Continuity as a Mediator between Place Attachment and Attitudes towards War Refugees. Journal of Environmental Psychology,92, 102181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.10218
• Lewicka, M. , Wnuk, A., Prusik, M., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S. , Iwańczak, B., Oleksy, T., Kula ^, A.M. (2023). Essentialist and anti-essentialist meanings of place: a new scale and implications for place attachment and openness to outgroups. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 88, 102030; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102030
• Wójcik, A., Lewicka, M. (2022). Between Discovery and Exploitation of History: Lay Theories of History and Their Connections to National Identity and Interest in History. Memory Studies, 15(6), 1497–1516. DOI: 10.1177/17506980221134507
• Lewicka, M., & Dobosh, O. (2021). Ethnocentric bias in perception of places: Role of essentialism and perceived continuity of places. In: C. Raymond. L. Manzo, D, Williams, T. von Wirth, & A. DiMasso (eds), Changing senses of place. Cambridge University Press.
• Lewicka, M. (2021). Essentialism in environmental psychology: Controversies and evidence. Annals of Psychology/Roczniki Psychologiczne, XXIV; https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych21242-2s
• Wnuk, A., Oleksy T., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S., Lewicka, M. (2021). The way we perceive a place implies who can live there: Essentialisation of place and attitudes towards diversity. Journal of Environmental Psychology , 75, 101600, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101600
• Lewicka, M.(1993). Aktor czy obserwator? Psychologiczne mechanizmy odchyleń od racjonalności w rozumowaniu potocznym . Warszawa-Olsztyn: PTP. (358.s.)
• Lewicka, M. (2012). Psychologia miejsca. Warszawa; Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Scholar” (637 s.) (od roku 2021 książka dostępna w postaci e-booka)
• Lewicka, M. (2021). In search of roots. Restoring continuity in a mobile world. In: L. Manzo, & P. Devine-Wright (red.), Place attachment: Advances in theory, methods and research. (wydanie II poprawione) (61-76). New York: Routledge/Francis & Taylor
• Lewicka, M., Dobosh, O. (2021). Ethnocentric bias in perception of places: Role of essentialism and perceived continuity of places. In: C. Raymond, L. Manzo, D. Williams, T. von Wirth, & A. DiMasso (eds.), Changing senses of place: Navigating global challenges. Cambridge University Press
• Wnuk, A., Oleksy T., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S., Lewicka, M. (2021). The way we perceive a place implies who can live there: Essentialisation of place and attitudes towards diversity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 75, 101600, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101600
• Iwańczak, B., Lewicka, M. (2020). Affective map of Warsaw. Testing Alexander’s Pattern Language theory in an urban landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning, 204, 103910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103910
• Devine-Wright, P., Pinto di Carvalho, L., Di Masso, A., Manzo, L., Lewicka, M., Williams, D. (2020) “Replaced” - Reconsiderations of relationships with place and lessons from a pandemic. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 72, 101514; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101514
• Lewicka, M., Rowiński, K., Iwańczak, B., Bałaj, B., Kula, A.M., Oleksy, T., Prusik, M., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S., Wnuk, A. (2019). On the essentialism of places: Between conservative and progressive meanings. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 65, 101318; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101318
• Lewicka, M., & Iwańczak, B. (2019). Regional differentiation of identities in Ukraine: How many regions? (pp. 25-66). W: U. Schmid & O. Myshlovska (red.). Regionalism without regions. Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s heterogeneity. Budapest-New York: Central European University Press
  
• Di Masso, A., Manzo, L.C., Devine-Wright, P., Raymond, C., Lewicka, M., Stedman, R., Williams, D.R., Buchecker, M., Shahrad, A., Hertzog, A., von Wirth, T., Degenhardt, B., Verbrugge, L. (2019). Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world. Journal of Environmental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.01.006
• Lewicka, M., Iwańczak, B. (2018). Uncompleted identity and its consequences: Compensations and synergies in Ukrainian identifications. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 59(4) DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2019.1574434

Oraz cztery najbardziej cytowane artykuły:

• Russell, J.A., Lewicka, M. , Niit, T. (1989). A Cross-Cultural Study of a Circumplex Model of Affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 848-856
• Lewicka, M. (2005). Ways to make people active: Role of place attachment, cultural capital and neighborhood ties. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 4 , 381-395
• Lewicka, M. (2011). Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? Journal of Environmental Psychology . 31, 207-230. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.10.001
• Lewicka, M. (2008). Place attachment, place identity and place memory: Restoring the forgotten city past. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28, 209-231